Royal experts explain why Meghan Markle had to give up passport, keys

Meghan Markle revealed that she didn’t have access to her passport, driver’s license and keys while behind palace walls — protocols that likely were for her own protection, royal experts said.

The Duchess of Sussex, 39, revealed how “all that gets turned over” in her tell-all Oprah Winfrey special that aired earlier in the week.

“Meghan had to hand in her driving license under security rules. If she went out driving on her own, she would not be protected,” historian Robert Lacey, who consults on the Netflix series “The Crown,” explained to the BBC.

As far as having to hand over her passport, that may have been taken for safe-keeping.

Robert Finch, who chairs the pro-monarchy group The Monarchist League of Canada, said that “one assumes that royals’ valuable personal documents are kept in a safe or safes — under the eye of the overall palace security.”

“Sounds as if it fitted Meghan’s narrative of being trapped and isolated, but really was routine, and probably anything would be accessible to her if she wanted it,” Finch told the outlet.

In her bombshell Winfrey interview, Markle said that the items weren’t returned to her until she stepped down from the royals and moved to California.
The California couple say they were not offered a security detail for their newborn son Archie, and were therefore required to make deals to earn enough money to protect him.

"The Netflixes and Spotifys of it all was never part of the plan," Harry said, adding that his father Prince Charles cut him off financially last year.

The exact details of the royals' protection, which is paid for by the British public, is not widely known due to security reasons, says Robert Finch, Dominion Chairman of The Monarchist League of Canada, a monarchist advocacy organisation that promotes the Crown in Canada.

So there is a lot of speculation about what the truth is, he says.

"The degree of security depends on seniority and visibility of a royal - some are given protection only when performing official duties, not 24/7 - though some live within a protected cordon, such as Kensington Palace."

Not all security for the royals is this visible, experts say

Within Scotland Yard, there is a Royal Protection Unit made up of uniformed and plain clothes officers.

Many people suspect that there is a specialist commando unit, possibly made up of SAS troops, that "shadows" the palaces occupied by the Queen "and possibly the homes of the two next heirs by generation [Prince Charles and the Duke of Cambridge] - as the threat level rises or falls", says Mr Finch.

"But this is never discussed."

Did Meghan have to give up her passport and driving licence?

"When I joined that family, that was the last time, until we came here, that I saw my passport, my driver's licence, my keys. All that gets turned over," Markle said in the interview, adding that those personal items were not returned until she left for California.

Buckingham Palace has yet to comment on the reason why such items may be held.

Historian and author Robert Lacey, who consults for Netflix series The Crown, says it was done for her own protection.

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"Meghan had to hand in her driving licence under security rules," he says. "If she went out driving on her own, she would not be protected."

“When I joined that family, that was the last time, until we came here, that I saw my passport, my driver’s license, my keys,” she said.